You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
ALAIN PROSTDoes it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that’s motor racing.
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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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